Costa Rican Koala: Loving Bliss Practice Idea, And Practices to Elicit Loving Bliss

In pursuing thinking about love, love in some of its best senses, and loving bliss in this blog, I find myself not often building upon the ideas that one can practice loving bliss. I wrote about this awhile ago in this letter ~ scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm, with its interesting resources, as well. But I haven't written too much about critical inquiry processes vis-a-vis loving bliss - asking questions about it - as significant as practice. And inquiry about loving bliss doesn't necessarily bring me to the experience of loving bliss itself, but thinking about eliciting loving bliss is a kind of engaged 'flow: the psychology of optimal experience' experience.



So to get to the neurophysiology of loving bliss, practice it. Here are some practices:



Loving practices


Practices to Elicit Loving Bliss

A basis for loving bliss (the following open the way to bliss for me, - explore innovative ways for yourself):

relaxing into the relaxation response (Benson 1972)

releasing and breathing practices (especially delicious ones)

{a healthy bodymind also seems important, - walking, yoga asana, swimming, dancing, a good diet, and flax seed omega-3 fatty acids taken with food, and a daily multivitamin?}



For bliss {each of the following can be a rich kind of flow experience, - especially when cultivating bliss; in some ways these are 'technologies' for bliss}:


listening to music (iTunes)

* arias in Mozart's "Magic Flute," especially the Queen of the Night's
o "O zittre nicht" aria (on youtube.com)
o "Der Holle Rache" (on rhapsody.com)
* Yo-Yo Ma playing J.S. Bach's "Cello Suites" (here's the Prelude)
* The Belleville A Cappella Choir, recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (on pandora.com)

dancing (especially New England contra-dance for me)

singing & improvisational, play singing

making music

playing and working with kids

eating extraordinary food

making love, intimacy, sexuality & coitus

conversing (mind-expanding & receptive, intellectual conversation)

engaging great music, poetry, literature, art, etc.

enjoying incredible nature, natural areas, wildflowers, flowers ..., - richly

traveling

opening to bliss while moving back and forth between Harbin Hot Springs' hot (113 F / 60 C) & cold (60 F / 15 C) pools

shaping a virtual world to explore practices of loving bliss?

smiling ~ beaming :))

~ What helps you elicit bliss naturally?




For love:

reciprocated, ongoing affection for another, a friend

exploring love in art, music, and ideas with a dear friend, and/or friends

nameless, loving understandings between friends who love one another

receiving and giving warmth and love with a radiant friend




Practice loving bliss:

consider using language that works for you as a kind of art or technology to bring these qualities of bliss to your bodymind in a variety of ways

> learn loving bliss through practice
{guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument}

> rekindle a lovingly blissful memory in your bodymind, and let this flower

> explore loving bliss {with friends} ~ dream it ~ write about it~ focus on it ~ create it :)








scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/building-upon-costa-rican-koala-loving.html - October 2, 2009)